We’ve spent years optimizing individual productivity with #AI.
But what happens when agents start mediating how #teams coordinate, negotiate, and build #sharedunderstanding?

Are we designing #collaborative systems — or just automating #distributedwork?

https://www.designative.info/2026/02/24/collaboration-in-the-age-of-ai-from-groupware-to-agent-mediated-teamwork/

Collaboration in the Age of AI: From groupware to Agent-Mediated Teamwork » { design@tive } information design

Collaboration in the Age of AI begins when agents move between people, reshaping teamwork from simple assistance to active mediation.

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Let’s explore how to use Jobs-to-be-Done (#JTBD) in #RoadmapPlanning and #Backlog grooming. We’ll see how it can transform the entire #ProductDevelopment process, keeping user needs at the forefront of every decision, while ensuring that our solutions resonate with the true essence of what our customers are trying to achieve #Agile #Collaboration #DesignStrategy #Facilitation #OutcomesOverOutputs #ProductManagement #SharedUnderstanding #StakeholderManagement #UX https://www.designative.info/2023/12/10/crafting-customer-centric-roadmaps-jobs-to-be-done-jtbd-approach-roadmap-planning-better-backlog-grooming/
Crafting Customer-Centric Roadmaps: A Jobs-to-be-Done Approach to Roadmap Planning and Better Backlog Grooming » { design@tive } information design

Learn how using JTBD injects user-centricity into every roadmap planning and backlog grooming activity, allowing you to prioritize effectively and craft impactful product experiences.

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Building a Supportive Network for Thought Leadership » { design@tive } information design

Unlock your thought leadership potential by collaborating, scaling visionary ideas, and influencing change by building ripple effects.

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#Planning was one of the cornerstones of #management, but it’s now fallen out of fashion. It seems rigid, bureaucratic, and ill-suited to a volatile, unpredictable world. However, organizations still need some form of planning. The answer is #agile planning, a process that can coordinate and align with today’s agile-based teams. https://hbr.org/2018/09/planning-doesnt-have-to-be-the-enemy-of-agile #ProjectManagement #Facilitation #Teamwork #SharedUnderstanding via @HarvardBiz
Planning Doesn’t Have to Be the Enemy of Agile

Planning was one of the cornerstones of management, but it’s now fallen out of fashion. It seems rigid, bureaucratic, and ill-suited to a volatile, unpredictable world. However, organizations still need some form of planning. And so, universally valuable, but desperately unfashionable, planning waits like a spinster in a Jane Austen novel for someone to recognize her worth. The answer is agile planning, a process that can coordinate and align with today’s agile-based teams. Agile planning also helps to resolve the tension between traditional planning’s focus on hard numbers, and the need for “soft data,” or human judgment.

Harvard Business Review

Card: Cards
Cards are play, possibility space,
roped path and shared
understanding affordances.

… pick two cards and add your thoughts between …

Card: Relate
How do we relate to
information and
meaning-making?

… does this mean that it’s all about what the Card does,
rather than what it is? …

... yes ...

#cards #CardsForInsight #play #game #SharedUnderstanding

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Take On Me: Literal Video Version

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Project Management, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution » { design@tive } information design

Learn some Conflict Resolution techniques to channel the energy of conflict into constructive disagreement and open exchange of ideas.

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Managing by Outcomes and Jobs to be Done » { design@tive } information design

Managing by Outcomes with Jobs to be Done (JTBD) can help facilitate two-way negotiations that allow for team autonomy and ownership.

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Strategy, Planning and Project Management » { design@tive } information design

There are some Project Management skills that will prove invaluable for the effectiveness of design strategists.

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The gap between #asynchronous #communication and the strategies we got used to lies in the inability to embed some personal touch and #humanity, and keeping everyone on the same page. Does it need to be hard to achieve? https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescommunicationscouncil/2022/12/27/increasing-effectiveness-and-adding-humanity-how-to-make-asynchronous-communication-really-work/ #RemoteWork #SharedUnderstanding
Increasing Effectiveness And Adding Humanity: How To Make Asynchronous Communication Really Work

The gap between asynchronous communication and the strategies we got used to lies in the inability to embed some personal touch and humanity, as well as keep everyone on the same page. Does it need to be hard to achieve this?

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